Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-12-31
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4 Oyster Juice Is what Paris doctors
4 now prescribe for patients whose stom.
/ Ichs are too weak to hold any other
4 kind Of food.
Able to bear her bereavement.
Delia-..H is Mrs. Grenadine lately?
Is she perfectly reconciled to the los.
! Of her husbandP' Belle-Yes. / think
50. Her mourning fits beautifully. -
Loven Citizen.
Omaha Man How ridiculous this
faith cure craze is! Noted physician
well, Idon't know about that. I've
seen good many people cured by
faith. z .'Eh Faith in the LordP''
mo. Faith in ME. - Omaha World
Fogg at the dinner table is OBJ
served looking sadly at the infinitesimal
portion OF a chicken that has been dealt
out to him. Suddenly CLEAN OF
pleasure comes over his face, and he
exclaims, Never mind, in heaven
shall have two wings every day."
The government o. New South
Wales offers a reward of $125,OO0 to
any person who will make known and
demonstrate at his own expense any
method or process not previously
known in the colony for the effectual
determination OF rabbits.
a North Carolinian, recently re-
turned omrJapan, says that in few
years the Japanese will be the greatest
railroad builders in the world. He
bases his Judgment on the fact that the
Japanese are great patrons of railroads.
Even when they have no business to
transact they ride back and forth on
the cars. until their money is gone.
even the beggars in the large towns
spending their money in this curious
way.
Idaho newspapers are calling at
tention to the fact that the I4emhi In
dams are slaughtering deer by whole
sale, just for their hides. They form a
circle covering miles of country, and
drive the deer toward common CEN
ter, generally a deep ravine, and do
their work SO thoroughly that almost
every animal started within the outer
circle is killed. The authorities are
asked to put stop to this slaughter.
At the Nashville race-course the
other day a man stood near book
making stand undecided how to bet his
money. While he was trying to make
up his mind rs to what to do a red
headed girl suddenly passed by him.
BE saw her, wheeled around bet his
money on the only gray horse in the
race and lost it. This is not the usual
way Of ending such stories, but the
truth must be told once in while.
Prof. Bolton expresses the opinion
that the browning glory of modern
chemistry is the power of producing,
in the laboratory. from inorganic mat
ter, substances identical with those ex-
listing in the vegetable and animal
kingdoms-it being known now that
the same chemical laws rule animate
and inanimate nature, and that any
definite compound produced in the
former can be prepared by synthesis as
soon as its chemical constitution has
been made out.
I'm San Francisco there are four
journals regularly published in Chinese
characters. These appear weekly, and
have circulation Of $500 copies. Ac-
corling to the Chinese method good
printer can print four hundred sheets
a day. Five days work are required
to get out any edition Of one thousand
copies. The journals are printed with
ink upon single sheets of white paper,
except on the Chinese New Year, when
the printing is done with red ink or
upon red paper.
Experts say that curtains and fine
laces can be made of malleable iron
and steel. At the Centennial Exhibi-
ton . piece of steel rolled by mill in
Pittsburgh was 30 thin that it weighed
less than book leaf, and could be
blown off the hand easier than paper
the same size. The sheets for STEEL lace
will be rolled down to low gague and
the patterns pressed into them. The
lace can be made light or heavy, and
is is suitable for ladies' and children's
underwear, perhaps for trimming hats,
wraps and dresses.
IL see that old Rumblossom fell off
the ferry boat last night half mile
from shore and got to land all right.
How did that happenp He cam swim
2 stroke. !" mo; but when he fell in he
got monthful of the stuff, and he
tasted it and knew it was water; it dis
gusted him so that he got right up and
walked along the bottom of the river
till he reached shore. He says you
couldn't have kept him in that stuff
five minutes if you had tied anchors to
both feet. - Burdette.
Toilet articles should now be
made of silver to be fashionable. The
pincushion is set in silver, with
enameled, repousse, or etched designs.
Sometimes it is set with rough pearls;
sometimes it is of antique silver, or
silver with raised work in gold. 1t has
an upholstered satin top, and it opens
like box, acting, in fact. in the
double capacity of pincushion and
jewel-case. Itcosts from $12 to $75.
AL combs, brushes, and hand-mirrors
are set in silver now. All ones mani
cure sets and cologne bottles and toilet
makeups and mysteries Of all descrip-
ton go in silver cases.
American gentlemen are making q
speciality Of importing English birds
for sporting purposes. During the past
three years one firm alone has imported
5000 English pheasants. 1900 part